RE: Pi to 20,000 places

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From: Han de Bruijn
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 07:00

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In article <1992Sep13.152323.12127@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca> Barry G. Adams:
> 
>     |\^/|      MAPLE V
> ._|\|   |/|_.  Copyright (c) 1981-1990 by the University of Waterloo.
>  \  MAPLE  /   All rights reserved.  MAPLE is a registered trademark of
>  <____ ____>   Waterloo Maple Software.
>       |        Type ? for help.
> > evalf(Pi,20000);
> Float(
> 
> 31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 [ ... stuff deleted ... ]
> quit
> bytes used=730080, alloc=655240, time=567.850

OK. Can't resist:

    |\^/|      MAPLE V
._|\|   |/|_.  Copyright (c) 1981-1990 by the University of Waterloo.
 \  MAPLE  /   All rights reserved.  MAPLE is a registered trademark of
 <____ ____>   Waterloo Maple Software.
      |        Type ? for help.
> evalf(1,20000);
Float(

1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
00000000000000000000000 .... Yaaaaaaaawn ....
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